Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

Sands Bethlehem Event Center, whose ticket sales have made it the third-busiest club-size venue in the world for the first half of 2015, has just sold out another show in a flash. Joe Walsh, who in a 40-year career has been the guitarist for country-rock icons The Eagles and The James Gang, as well as a successful solo artist, essentially sold out his Sept. 26 concert at the event center in 2 1/2 hours when tickets went on sale this morning. The Ticketmaster website showed 42 tickets of the 2,550 at the event center still available as of 1:30 p.m., but all were single seats, which are typically are harder to sell. The quick sale was made even more impressive by the fact that tickets...

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